18/08/2026
*edit* Our weekend roundup is brought to you, as ever, by Herdmans Chemists, longtime main sponsor of RCC.
We start last Friday as our lasses continued their cricket journey with the visitor of Sunderland CC, the Ashbrooke girls proving to be a very powerful side in a big win, all money in the bank for our girls though as playing against such a good side can only improve their experience, individual performances of note from Nicola Hardy and Hannah Mason.
The Saturday games provided a win and a defeat with the 1sts travelling to Brandon and suffering a 7 wicket defeat, we scored 143 all out (Matty Dench 59 and Picks 37) and made a couple of early inroads into Brandon's batting but couldnt push on as the oppo cruised to victory in just 21 overs.
The 2nds fared better with a 60 run victory over South Shields 2nds at the 'hope.
Batting first we found ourselves 28-4 but a superb 58 from Henry Wallbank backed by an unbeaten half century from Jonny Errington and 35 from Mo Aslam propelled us to 204ao, we then bowled and fielded well to bowl out the visitors for 144 with Dom Hunter bagging 4-27 and Abdullah Ghuman 3-27.
Sunday saw our first team in action at Hunwick in the 15/15 playoff semi against South Hetton, and they subsided to a 3 wicket defeat, batting first we posted 115-5, Jenks leading the way with 33 and scores in the teens from Tom Coulthard, Scott Lawrence and Edd Finn, our bowling largely went round the park with Dom Hunter 2-21 and David Kirtley 2-23 notable exeptions. Sunday also saw our u11 Maroons progress into the semis with a hard-fought win over South Shields u12 girls, 2 wickets apiece for Alex Brown, Jacob Lawrence and Lucas Wright alongside some excellent fielding restricted the girls run making, when it was our turn to bat victory was assured with a solid batting performance, 21 from Jacob Lawrence and 20 from Jake Philliskirk the main contributors.
The u11 Golds couldnt win their QF however and so bow out of the competition, real progress from this bunch of kids though over the season, visitors Bill Quay winning by 24 runs despite 15 from Charlie Hayes and 16 from Oliver Lawson and a 2fer for Charlie in the Bill Quay innings.
As reported previously the girls were in tournament action at the Emirates and the 3rds completed a packed cricket day at the 'hope suffering an 8 wicket defeat at the hands of Littletown, batting first we scored 142, 20s from Phil Hutchinson, Cole Levy, Chris Waller and Mo Aslam but noone could push on to that big score, the runs were knocked off in 30 overs with Mo bagging both wickets to fall.
Monday was busy too with afternoon cricket at Seaham Harbour, batting first there were runs from Jacob Lawrence (20) and Arki James (12) , the hosts batting beautifully in reply to win by 17 runs, a superb wicketkeeping performance from Sanmay Salgudi the highlight of our bowling and fielding.
The evening brought u15 action as Silksworth visited and we knew a victory would make us league champions, batting first Sam Philliskirk was our only double figure score (39) as we posted only 93-9. Silky were cruising to victory at 87-3 before news filtered through that other results had gone our way and wickets taken could decide the title, up stepped spinner Thomas Turnbull to bowl out the impressive Lincoln Agnew, this was followed up by a marvellous Hattrick from Adam Malkin as 7 wickets were taken and the title secured before Silky secured a well deserved win. Massive congratulations to our under15s! A fabulous achievement with significant contributions from the entire squad.
